For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
Some stories are true that never happened.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.
Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings! the Hungarian police were screaming.That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. The...
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.
Peace is our gift to each other.
The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
I no longer ask You for either happiness or paradise; all I ask of You is to listen and let me be aware and worthy of Your listening. I no longer ask You to resolve my questions, only to receive them...
In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous.We believed in God; trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been e...
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)You can't do anything about the len...
Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.Never shall I forget that smoke.Never shall I forget the small faces of the childre...